Ally Condie Quotes

United States, Novelist
November 2, 1971

Ally Condie is an author of young adult and middle grade fiction. Her novel Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a year on the New York Times Bestseller List. The sequels (Crossed and Reached) are also New York Times bestsellers. Matched was chosen as one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten and named as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2010. All three books are available in 30+ languages.

I was born and raised in southern Utah.

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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

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- Experience
- Power
- Future

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

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In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

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- Life
- Good
- Bad
I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'

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- Great
- Career
- Parents
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

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- Life
- World
- Beautiful
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

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- Time
- Good
- Poetry
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

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- People
- Free
- Fighting

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

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- World
- Past
- Teen